• 243 (TC2A-1) Emerging Adulthood in Time and Space: An Interdisciplinary Theoretical Approach. Presented by: Amanda L. Williams and Michael J. Merten

• 243 (TC2A-2) Family Warmth in Adolescence and Personality Development in Young Adulthood.Presented by: Mark J. Benson and Caitlin Faas
  
  

Abstracts

243 (TC2A-1) Emerging Adulthood in Time and Space: An Interdisciplinary Theoretical Approach.

Presented by: Amanda L. Williams and Michael J. Merten

Limited research addresses homeless youth development during emerging adulthood. When we think about youth homelessness, we often think in terms of family or community context, but rarely consider the most proximal contexts of environment, social networks, and daily paths, which may significantly affect the emerging adulthood process. Incorporating geographic theory, specifically time-space continuity, into our understanding of emerging adulthood gives us new language and vast methodological potential with which we can further our understanding about what emerging adulthood looks like and how it functions among youth “on the street,” “of the street,” and those who have been completely abandoned.

243 (TC2A-2) Family Warmth in Adolescence and Personality Development in Young Adulthood.

Presented by: Mark J. Benson and Caitlin Faas

Personality traits involve repeated patterns of cognition, affect, and behavior that foster adaptation to the local niche.  Despite the centrality to human experience, family influences on personality have been neglected for methodological and conceptual reasons.  We demonstrate an approach for modeling subtle family influence through regulatory processes.  Findings from these models imply a process account whereby family warmth provides a favorable climate for the development of self-regulatory processes.  Self-regulatory processes, in turn, relate to the development of advantaged personality traits such as agreeableness, conscientiousness, and freedom from neuroticism.